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1. Miss Jones and her ancient familial home now stood in much reduced status in the middle of this quiet and genteel suburban sprawl
2. They tried keeping a dog, but found the urban sprawl too bleak a thing to impose on such an innocent creature
3. Beyond the immediate sprawl of the hospital buildings Barnstaple fades quickly in Billy's rear view mirror, not that he is at all aware of the mirror, signal, manoeuvre process
4. He was drained and wanted to do nothing except sprawl on the sofa and relax
5. All that mattered was that they got out of these claustrophobic tunnels, got to the safety of fresh air, that she was able to sprawl, just for a moment, on soft sand
6. With her body still steaming, she’d sprawl on her wide bed and allow the slowly rotating ceiling fan to hypnotically induce first dreams, then sleep
7. Now an awful sound came out of her mouth and the hair on the back of her neck raised up stiffly as she saw the other rise from his sprawl
8. upcoming water wars, the erosion of the coral reefs, the endangered ozone layer, lost species, urban sprawl, sustainable growth, and so on
9. After World War II and into the mid-1960s, Amarillo thrived, and the suburbs began to sprawl predominantly to the southwest of the city
10. After such a passionate coupling, sleep hadn’t come to Moshe as quickly as it had for Sari, who lay in the careless sprawl of utter contentment
11. Sally Churna's full roundhouse slap knocked the lieutenant backwards off his chair to sprawl at the feet of Colonel Friedlander who had arrived in time to hear the query
12. who lay in the careless sprawl of utter contentment
13. into the horizon, which seemed to sprawl out around us,
14. The sprawl was different: buildings spread farther apart, palm trees and low hills in the distance
15. The city was nestled against the range to the north and spread down to sprawl
16. and natural reservoirs, the sprawl of the encroaching
17. This was a white enclave which was only just beginning to open its doors to other races and even then the new intake was also rather precious; sons and daughters of a new black middle class which also wished to guard their offspring from the realities of urban sprawl and maul
18. When he arrived in Asia a few weeks ago Francis would see people sprawl out lengthwise on three or four molded plastic chairs on the boats and take a nap
19. Pressure bulged in Lindsey’s chest as she flipped through the sprawl of papers and files littering her table
20. together in the smoking room; sprawl about
21. Are you, baby?” As if to illustrate the point, Norah slipped out of her shoes and dropped back to the floor, neatly tucking her legs so Hush could sprawl across her lap
22. “As a local business owner, I’m sure you can appreciate the importance of preserving the character of Wishful and preventing the uncontrolled urban sprawl that would inevitably follow should GrandGoods be allowed to go ahead with their project
23. With that comes the same kind of sprawl, traffic congestion, environmental degradation, loss of community, and the economic and social segregation that’s seen nationwide
24. Earthquakes and tectonic shifts or mall demolitions and nuclear testing the stretching of its limbs? Is it our artificial electrical grid or thunderstorms and hurricanes that comprise Eartheart's higher nervous system? Our field is the lab, our flesh a sensor net, but certainly, the soil, not the dump, is Eartheart's digestive tract; water, not monergy, its circulatory system; weather patterns, not satellite orbits, its respiration; until we're all resourcefully recycled as excrement, decay and death becoming soil once again, where microbial life crawls the face of all the skin of this mother we sprawl across, until we rise, again, as food and stomach both reproducing as sustenance for each other, the carriers of essential vitamins and minerals feeding the many organs comprising its biodiversity
25. Bev don’t appear to be into urban sprawl
26. The northern shore of Lake Ontario, with all of its urban sprawl, would have become a sea of red
27. After our night in the cabin in the woods we’re starting to encounter more people travelling out of the urban sprawl and the smaller towns in Southwestern Ontario
28. This wasn’t my first trip to Phoenix, of course, but since it was at least six months and sometimes a year between visits, I always forgot about the vast urban sprawl, the amazing variety of shops…the aggressive drivers
29. that are the same exact thing as Urban Sprawl
30. America is still creating urban sprawl and destroying land at the rate of millions of acres per year
31. mounted the iron throne, letting his long legs sprawl down
32. With a lazy sprawl, she inhaled
33. The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the
34. The Reichssportfeld would sprawl over more than 325 acres
35. But if perchance he had to dismount, then, after a while, from the door of that hovel or of that pulperia, with a ferocious scuffle and stifled imprecations, a cargador would fly out head first and hands abroad, to sprawl under the forelegs of the silver-grey mare, who only pricked forward her sharp little ears
36. It also cut the bishop off in mid-word and flung him back across his desk in a graceless sprawl with a dark, black-edged hole in the center of his forehead
37. This is a beautiful way to address the frictions that bedevil modern society: as grateful as we are for the complex processes that have produced so much technology and progress, we are also dizzied by their sprawl
38. Dunk put a big hand on his chest and shoved, sending the man flailing backwards to sprawl on his arse in the dirt
39. The inn was bigger than he’d expected, a great grey sprawl of a place, timbered and turreted, half of it built on pilings out over the water
40. But for the Daily Post, fourth-largest paper in Chicago, relegated to the suburbs, there’s room to sprawl
41. The Nosehorn Bull at Bay was a solid sprawl of fieldstone, a single story with a roof of green-painted cypress shakes
1. " She sprawled over the table with laughter
2. It’s peaceful sitting sprawled here on the sofa …
3. He spoke into the air as much as into the back of the girl's head that was sprawled over the patio table in front of him
4. A handful of other teachers are sprawled here and there
5. Ahmed is sprawled across the bed, SOBBING and clutching a teddy bear
6. It was sprawled open but some of the contents were still within
7. Sprawled in a corner was a group of sleeping, travel-weary Romanies, their timeless faces seeming familiar, like those in my books, but they weren't familiar at all, I just wanted them to be
8. I’d knocked myself out and was sprawled on the ground – the lucky thing about it was that because I was feverish I didn’t try to save myself at all, so landed fair and square in the middle of a bush which broke my fall’
9. Gently pushing open the door, she peered in … Ozzie was sprawled on the bed, sound asleep
10. fallen sailor, sprawled on the ground before him
11. Harry leapt onto their shoulders and in a back flip, his boots squished upwards through their faces; they hit the ground on top of each other sprawled onto the first victim
12. behind him, and there lying sprawled across the
13. It was too late; Heather’s body lay sprawled in the doorway, her legs on the
14. She sprawled over top of him when she was sated, still amazed at herself for doing this
15. Then suddenly, the dirty gray and brown garment drifted to the earth, resting in a heap of folds next to the sprawled out body of Nathalia
16. Sprawled all over each other
17. Instead, Tragus sprawled over a sleeping ewe
18. He stared back and forth between the gore that dripped from it and the sprawled form of Aristides
19. Once small move on either part could leave one or both of us sprawled against the sandy ground
20. She gasped when she saw what appeared to be remnants of a burnt corpse sprawled out on the floor of the structure, near the remains of the fireplace
21. He walked up the wide steps to the landing before the entrance and turned to survey the city that lay sprawled before him
22. Way down below he realised that he could see a human figure sprawled across the rocks, clearly very dead
23. Jack was sprawled on the sofa reading the evening paper
24. crossed as he lay sprawled on the new Axminster carpet
25. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase
26. The gray sprawled in an unruly pose, nothing like the memory of my refined tuxedo, Gatsby
27. Bet walked straight past the prostrate George without saying a word and we all followed him back in to the estaminet Frank stopped and looked down at George as he lay sprawled on the ground and said
28. Very pretty and very watchful, she was sprawled on the floor in a lazy C, but her eyes were fixed intently on me, her tail flicking as she appraised me
29. He stayed fixed to the spot as two guards stepped through the ropes into the ring and grabbed the body that lay sprawled in the centre
30. The sun was directly in our faces as we crested the last hill and saw the town sprawled out ahead of us
31. All the enforcers lay sprawled all on the ground, dead or dying
32. Jack was already there, sprawled on the sofa, finishing off a tankard of ale
33. Soon her chest was safely over the lip of the pit, her body was being pressed forward until she could roll over, exhausted, sprawled in utter exhaustion spread eagle in the mouth of the cave
34. His boss was sprawled on the floor and Marcos hurried to his side, spotting blood on his face
35. Bowl in hand, I sprawled on the couch—not the utilitarian couch that had come with the apartment but the puffy one with the big, pastel 1990s lilies on it that I’d taken from my Gramma’s house when I cleaned it out after she’d died
36. He moved over to the chair that Worth had left and sprawled in it in a single graceful, loose-limbed motion
37. He lay sprawled at the bottom of the staircase
38. Stuart’s guest was lying sprawled on his stomach
39. The Police though could not help notice the racist signs and graffiti sprawled across the floor of the Mosque
40. The Baron sighed there for a moment, and in a surprisingly fast and fluid move, got a pistol out of his pocket, and shot me; repeatedly, until the magazine ran out and I was laying sprawled on the floor
41. Amonas was sitting cross-legged without the cover of the small makeshift shelter he had fashioned; most of it was taken over by the sprawled figure of Hilderich who seemed to be thankfully quite at ease sleeping on the almost bare ground, with nothing but his already muddied and stained cloak as a mattress
42. Hilderich was sitting down on the ground idly with his back propped up against the trunk of a tree, legs sprawled nonchalantly
43. Panting from the exertion and the toll on their lungs they sprawled themselves on the surface of the summit, which was similar but not entirely so to the blocks of black material they had been climbing on for what must have genuinely been hours on end
44. Each collapsed to their knees; Belver sprawled upon his stomach
45. “Yeah, okay, I got it,” he answered as he assumed a position slightly less resembling a dog sprawled in the center of the road
46. He fell badly on the first step with his chest thudding on impact, and then his body swivelled slightly to one side before he rolled down two, maybe three steps until he came to a stop, his limbs sprawled at nearly impossible angles
47. Hilderich looked at his feet sprawled as they were, his vision evidently out of focus
48. Amonas was sitting at the floor now with legs sprawled, hands on the floor keeping him upright
49. Argyl was sprawled over me, holding my convulsing body down
50. I was sprawled along the foot of the bed, someone had pulled a thin sheet over me and tucked a pillow beneath my head
1. It was a pretty good imitation of what he would have liked back home, a sprawling ranch built out of earthenware blocks with a tile and beam roof
2. Herndon could still remember the construction of the Presidente Lula in low orbit above the Sao Luis Megalopolis, then a sprawling collection of seventeen million in balconied skyscrapers overlooking yacht basins all around the bay, the whole peninsula nothing but skyscrapers along the reconstituted beaches, or industrial plant in the interior
3. I realise Athens too has its unfair share of insidious tourist traps just like Cornwall and no doubt the traffic is nightmare and yes, it's a sprawling jumble of concrete and marble, of ancient and modern, of the implausible and the miraculous, but then they say Athens teems with spectacular sights, superb cafes, and much more that you just won't find in any modern city
4. The house itself was long and sprawling, but at this point he was on the second floor
5. Omaha, Nebraska was a city of over 30,000 people, sprawling and alive
6. Heather was sent sprawling, her face hitting the dirt
7. And the mountain itself, a sprawling city surrounding the Great Red Wall
8. We walked through the sprawling gardens, along a path lined with tulips and carnations
9. sent you sprawling all those years ago
10. But when she tried to stand her legs seemed to vanish from under her and she fell sprawling on her face
11. ’ He rolled out of his bed as the first blow struck the ship, and was promptly sent sprawling
12. At that precise moment, Forgo spun around and delivered a meaty left hook to the Mayor’s jaw and sent the politician sprawling to the ground, splendidly and completely unconscious
13. The sprawling complex covered a city block and included a running track buried under a white field of snow, steam rooms, heated baths, and the area they approached: the rings
14. Longleaf delivered a ferocious punch to the shorter pirate, sending him sprawling, but a second later the two Men set to him with their own blades, clanging up a storm
15. Over the generations the sett had grown so large and sprawling that most other badgers left it well alone, even Evaert giving it a wide birth during his attack on Boddaert's Realm
16. It is easy enough, I suppose, for café latte types earning above average salaries to criticize the company from the vantage point of high-rise corporate towers and sprawling industrial parks where office workers, comfortably ensconced in the privacy of their cubicles, routinely shop on their Internets or indulge in a casual game of solitaire while pretending to look busy
17. Geographically sprawling and covering a diversity of terrain, one minute you were downtown, and then you were out in the country in about five minutes
18. In the southwest, it was a sprawling mixture of heavy petro-chemical industry and post-industrial decay
19. The boy, so close now that he was unable to stop, slammed straight into him, sprawling face first onto the path
20. It was a sprawling complex of warehouses, machine shops, assembly areas, repair areas, scrap and storage areas, barracks, officer’s quarters, and finally the aerodrome
21. that I now thought of as home: the sprawling, friendly and
22. Behind him were the old goat horns, sprawling a metre across the wall
23. Suddenly, he clutched his hand to his chest and pitched forward, sprawling onto the table
24. Twisting my neck all out of joint, I tried to peer back over my shoulder to get some kind of impression, but the campus was pretty sprawling
25. She had been quite dizzy and disoriented from labor when they brought her in and she had given only a passing amount of attention to the sprawling system of caves that seemed to branch out in many different directions
26. A lightning move to his left, a vicious swing of the paddle sent his victim sprawling before he could raise an arm in defense
27. bend, sending Jessie sprawling to her knees as she ran through
28. Three months had passed and the sun cast its glow over the sprawling Victorian façade of the Karen Phillimore Centre, a large mental health institute that dominated the surrounding parkland on the borders of Epping Forest
29. Adrinius moved to Zacchaeus with his vampire grace, sprawling his hands on his brother’s oversized back, he heaved the monster back, propelling Zacchaeus onto the floor, in a seated position
30. ” Jesse looked up to see the hulking man shake his head slowly before a blow to the side of Jesse’s face sent her sprawling to the floor
31. Prince Gotimin of The Elves of Sming presented them with Winghoof Estate, a working horse ranch boasting some six hundred and forty of the finest riding horses, complete with a sprawling home of sixteen rooms, outbuildings, gardens, and a few farm animals, as well as an established staff of ranch hands
32. On the way, he made a point of taking time to show me the modern campus of Ithaca College and the sprawling grounds of world-renowned Cornell University
33. The gates were suddenly flung open and with chains removed, the two were kicked, pummeled, and shoved into the compound, where they stumbled and fell, sprawling face-first on the ground
34. The ogre took another swing with his shortened weapon, but Talia danced inside his swing and neatly tripped him, sending him sprawling forward
35. They climbed into a battered black jeep with no top, and Myers drove them to the main gate of the sprawling air base
36. He felt Frankel’s gasp in his thoughts rather than heard it, and then Thomas raised his hand, and a stinging slap sent the Lost One sprawling to the icy ground
37. pummeled, and shoved into the compound, where they stumbled and fell, sprawling face-first
38. The men cheered and looked out at the incredible expanse of sprawling Los Angeles, slightly fuzzed by smog, that was their first sight of the U
39. chatting, a lake lined with trees and grass sprawling out behind
40. sprawling my legs out lazily in front of me
41. creature inside the sprawling herd
42. She snapped out a hard jab that sent him sprawling through the crowd to the horrified screams of the little old ladies who abruptly dropped their hymnals and fled from the developing mayhem
43. His sword missed the agile target but the shield bash that followed hit home hard, sending his opponent sprawling backwards, a trickle of blood running from his nose
44. A third time he struggled and tripped again, sprawling over the coffer
45. He tried again to rise, sprawling on his side and clutching his knee with both hands
46. terrible sleeper, prone to snoring, hogging the sheets and sprawling her long limbs across the
47. As he approached he took a well aimed swing at the blond man and sent him flying backwards into the other car driver knocking him sprawling
48. one of the most sprawling of homesteads and being one of the wealthiest men, probably
49. Her eyes widened as I slammed into her and she went sprawling in the snow
50. under the cover of the sprawling trees and heading up a hundred feet and along a trail that
1. He drops his large, slobbering tongue onto her face and sprawls out over her, Wafer nips at her ears
2. Emma sprawls on the bed, her hands conjuring shapes in the air
3. She sprawls out and does what she normally does best
4. The Mabas once lived in the long valley where the city now sprawls
5. The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,
6. It’s one of those perfect days, the sky a cloudless blue above a scooped-out grassy bowl that sprawls for miles between the majestic mountains of our home
7. Good fellow! Fido! Good fellow! Garryowen! (The wolfdog sprawls on his back, wriggling obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out